Preface 1 Columbus to Columbia (Via St Louis): Separating Fact from Fiction
Notes Preface 1. Qtd. in T, 202. 2. N, 457. 1 Columbus to Columbia (via St Louis): Separating Fact from Fiction 1. T, 37. 2. Ibid., 42–44. 3. Allean Hale, an eminent Williams scholar, has made this point repeatedly, the latest effort coming from her article, ‘Tennessee Williams’ St Louis Blues’, in David Kaplan’s Tenn at One Hundred: The Reputation of Tennessee Williams. 4. T, 39. 5. Ibid., 79. The Williamses were to live in the flat for nearly ten years. 6. NSE, 27. 7. RMT, 19. 8. T, 44–45. 9. Ibid., 44. Leverich notes that Cornelius would escape the War due to his near blindness in one eye, the result of a childhood injury (39, 46). Prophetically, eye problems would be the reason for his son having been declared IV-F years later and thus ineligible for the draft during World War II. 10. L I, 5. The widow Rose Williams in the comic is ‘so strict’ that her previous nine husbands have all ‘commided suicid’ (6, sic). Violence in Williams’s writing was already well established from an early age. 11. Kolin, ‘“Isolated”’, 33–39. 12. Williams, ‘Isolated’, 2. 13. Ibid. 14. Qtd. in Kolin, ‘“Isolated”’, 35. 15. T, 77, 65. 16. KS, 48. As Esther Jackson notes, ‘In his concept of form, then, Williams recapit- ulates certain ideas drawn from the romantic tradition’ (31; see also 34–36). 17. T, 140. 18. Written when he was a ninth grader, Williams’s ecological tract, ‘Demon Smoke’, about the smog problem that St Louis faced daily, appeared in Blewett Junior Life Yearbook in June 1925.
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